Manan Qureshi

Financial Sector, Cybersecurity Expert

Singapore

Manan in his previous tenures has worked in leadership roles both on the management consulting side and on the consumer side across APAC, Middle East, Europe and North America managing multi-country portfolios across Cyber ,Organisational Resilience and GRC in a range of verticals including Finance, Defence, Telecom, Government and R&D. In his previous Role at Riyad Bank - Manan lead the seismic shift in their Cyber Security and Organizational Resilience program – and was instrumental in driving convergence across both silos.

He also participated in Digitalization Roadmap of the organization that had stringent regulatory requirements of a cross-geo operations Manan has worked on both sides of the aisle - both on the consulting side and the consumer side. At KPMG, Devoteam and Accenture where he was also focused on leading engagements relating to Enterprise Risk Management, Cyber Resilience, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Governance Risk and Compliance across Financial, Aviation, Oil & Gas, Telco & Defence Sectors.

On the consumer side in Societe Generale, HSBC and Riyad Bank - Manan lead multi-country portfolios covering Cyber & Organisational Resilience- Dealing with PCI-DSS, ISO31000, ISO27K1 and ISO22301 Certifications along with elevating the programs to a higher posture of maturity. Manan speaks regularly on the speaking circuit across various leading global forums – the last three being the CISO Conference in Dubai, Emerging Cyber Threat Summit in Australia and the RiskSec Conference in Toronto. Manan holds his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Cyprus- along with other industry specific academic accreditations.